People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
TERESA OF AVILALightning makes no sound until it strikes.
More Martin Luther King Jr Quotes
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
BEN FOLDS -
Love is the greatest and most excellent thing we are masters of and therefore it is folly and baseness to bestow it unworthily. It is indeed the only thing we can call our own: other things may be taken from us by violence, but none can ravish our love.
ANONYMOUS -
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things – the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold – were false to you.
BERYL MARKHAM -
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
ARTHUR MILLER -
You load your words as I bare my chest, and this will be the most beautiful death.
NICOLE LYONS -
Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
ALAN ARKIN -
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
CLEOPATRA -
There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA -
Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
BERNARDINE DOHRN -
You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.
WARREN BUFFETT -
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.
BLAKE BAILEY -
I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of Suits. It’s broken into such small pieces.
ZACHARY QUINTO -
Maniacal suicide. -This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.
EMILE DURKHEIM -
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
RONALD REAGAN -
Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETT